458 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



CULEX LATEROPUNCTATA. 11. Sp. 



Head and thorax brown ; palpi and proboscis black. 

 Abdomen black, with lateral basal white spots. Legs dark 

 brown, unhanded, a pale tibial spot. Wings rather long, dark 

 scaled ; fork-cells long, the stem of the first sub-marginal less 

 than one-fourth the length of the cell. 



5 . Head brown, with narrow-curved pale greyish-brown 

 scales and a paler border around the eyes, with brown and black 

 upright forked scales and flat creamy lateral scales \ palpi and 

 proboscis and clypeus black \ palpi with two long bristles towards 

 the base and short ones on the blunt apex ; antennae deep 

 brown, basal segment only bright ochraceous. 



Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved brown scales 

 becoming more golden-brown posteriorly ; scutellum pale brown, 

 with narrow-curved creamy scales and seven brown posterior 

 border-bristles to the mid lobe, five large and some smaller ones 

 to the lateral lobes ; metanotum brown ; pleurae pale greyish. 



Abdomen deep rich brown, with basal lateral white spots, 

 looking creamy in some lights, and most prominent on the 

 apical segments \ posterior border-bristles pale brown ; venter 

 with basal pale bands. 



Legs deep brown, unhanded ; a pale spot at apex of tibiae, 

 hind first tarsals and tibiae of equal length \ ungues small, equal, 

 simple. 



Wings rather long and narrow ; costa, first long vein, third, 

 fifth, and sixth dark brown, rest paler ; the first sub-marginal 

 cell very much longer and narrower than the second posterior 

 cell, more than a third of the length of the whole wing, its base 



Fig. 203. 

 Wing of Cvlex laUroptmctata. 9. n. sp. 



much nearer the base of the wing than that of the second 

 posterior, its stem about one-sixth the length of the cell ; stem of 

 the second posterior not quite half the length of the cell ; cross- 

 veins very thin, the posterior longer than the mid, not quite its 



